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Re: (meteorobs) Joe Rao's summation of the 2002 Leonids
If anything, I am most disgusted by this "false advertising" for our astronomical events. The crap we have to take from commercials and spammers, who promise "free vacation for 2 in Bahamas" but the fine print says you have to pick up your own airfare, etc, etc.
If its not realistic for the vast majority to see "6000/hr", then dont say you can see 6000/hr and disclaim it. The right way is just not to hype it up at all.
Please, lets keep this commercial advertising BS out of astronomy!
Mike Linnolt
--- Skywayinc@aol.com wrote:
> Those who heard reports in their local media
> that " . . . up to 6,000
> meteors per hour" would be visible with this year's
> Leonids, did not listen
> carefully enough to the disclaimer (if it was
> mentioned at all) regarding the
> nearly full Moon; and that almost certainly only a
> fraction of those promised
> high rates would be visible thanks to the brilliant
> moonlight! This factor
> was stressed several times in my Leonid article in
> the November 2002 S&T.
>
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